《Logic and Critical Thinking》Syllabus

Course Number:           2310010726

Course Name:               Logic and Critical Thinking

Instructors:                    Shi Yongle

Required Text:              Logic Textbook Compilation Team (Second edition). Logic and Critical Thinking [M]. Beijing: Higher Education Press，2018

Course Description:      This course is a mandatory professional platform course for students majoring in Business Administration. The course aims to cultivate students' abilities in analysis, evaluation, reasoning, and problem-solving. Through the teaching of this course, students are required to be able to identify logical fallacies, understand argumentative structures, and use logical reasoning for effective communication. The course emphasizes critical examination of complex information and requires students to be able to apply logical principles to evaluate the authenticity, rationality, and value of viewpoints. Through case analysis, group discussions, and writing exercises, students will improve their logical reasoning ability, form independent and rational thinking patterns, and lay a solid foundation for future academic research and career development.

                                                                                                   Credit/Teaching Hours

Outline of UG CPC Topics Covered in this Course:  (2 Credits/32 Teaching Hours)

I. Introduction to Logic and Critical Thinking                      4 Teaching Hours

-Objects and Properties of Logic

-The Significance and Methods of Learning Logic

-Overview of the Development of Logic

II.Traditional Term Logic                                     8 Teaching Hours

-Overview of Word Items

-Categorical Proposition

-Direct Inference

-Syllogism

III.Propositional logic                                          8 Teaching Hours

-Overview of Propositive Logic

-Compound Proposition and Its Inference

-Truth Table Method

IV.Predicate logic                                              8 Teaching Hours

-Individual words, predicates, quantifiers

-The Formal Language of Predicate Logic

-Basic Grammar Concepts

-Predicate logical semantics

V. The Basic Laws of Logical Thinking                           4 Teaching Hours

-Logic Laws and Thinking Norms

-Law of Contradiction

-Law of Excluded Middle

-Law of Identity

               Total (Teaching Hours)                                                                  32  

Summary of UG CPC Topics Covered in this Course:                   (32 Teaching Hours)